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Flexible Wings Driven by Simple Oscillation May Be Viable for Efficient Micro Air Vehicles
November 22, 2010 — To avoid some of the design challenges involved in creating micro-scale air vehicles that mimic the flapping of winged insects or birds, researchers propose using flexible wings that are driven by a ... > full story -
Simple Rubber Device Mimics Complex Bird Songs
November 21, 2010 — Scientists have reproduced many of the characteristics of real bird song with a simple physical model made of a rubber ... > full story -
Should Airplanes Look Like Birds?
November 21, 2010 — Airplanes do not look much like birds, but should they? This question is exactly what a pair of engineers inadvertently answered recently in ... > full story -
How Hummingbirds Fight the Wind: Robotic Wing May Reveal Answer
November 21, 2010 — Hummingbirds rank among the world's most accomplished hovering animals, but how do they manage it in gusty winds? Researchers have built a robotic hummingbird wing to discover the ... > full story -
Why You Can Listen at Cocktail Parties: Songbirds' Individual Brain Cells Are Tuned to Particular Sounds
November 16, 2010 — Nerve cells in the brains of songbirds are sensitive to specific sounds, and only respond when those sounds occur during communication, a recent study shows. The finding helps explain people's ... > full story -
Brent Geese Show Parents Know Best
November 16, 2010 — Research from a six year study on migrating geese has discovered an interesting outcome -- they return to the same spots they were taken to as youngsters. The study suggests young light-bellied Brent ... > full story -
Prehistoric Winged Reptiles 'Pole-Vaulted' Into Flight
November 15, 2010 — Controversial claims that enormous prehistoric winged beasts could not fly have been refuted by the most comprehensive study to date which asserts that giant pterosaurs were skilled in flight. The ... > full story -
New Leads in the Case Against Drug-Resistant Biofilms
November 10, 2010 — Films of bacteria that form around foreign materials in the body can be very difficult to defeat with drugs, but biologists have now identified a couple proteins that play a key role in building ... > full story -
How the Songbird's Brain Controls Timing During Singing
November 8, 2010 — New research that reveals the activity of nerve cells in a songbird's brain as the bird sings a specific song is helping scientists to understand how birds string together sets of syllables -- and it ... > full story -
Plight of Farmland Birds: Poorer, Less 'Brainy' Fare Worse, Study Shows
November 3, 2010 — Farmland birds that are poorer parents and less "brainy" are faring worse than other farmland bird species, a new study has ... > full story
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